Amazon Border: the criminal organization Comando Vermelho from Brasil takes refuge in Peru

A team from OjoPúblico traveled along one of the most complicated borders in the Amazon: Ucayali (Peru) with Acre (Brazil). In this area - where Saweto leaders were previously murdered - the transit of illegal products such as drugs and timber from indigenous territories and protected areas has intensified. Brazilian authorities claim that Peru has become a refuge for at least four regional leaders of the Red Command (CV), one of the main criminal organizations in the neighboring country. In July 2021, a court in Villa El Salvador bizarrely ordered the release of one of the leaders of this organization, who had been arrested in Peru in 2019, before he was extradited to Brazil.

Fabiano Maisonnave